Chapter 10 Make Them Responsible

Chapter ten talks about kids who are responsible and irresponsible. The ones that are irresponsible should be given little things to be in charge of that will eventually make them more responsible. If the kids has bad behavior or does something bad just ignore him/her and him/her will quite more than likely. Even if you do this with high school students or adults it works the same just like stickers from back in elementary school. This helps show how to get students to behave better without really doing anything and get things done for you. It could help with working with kids for a long time like a camp or club or organization project than giving everything to the responsible ones.
50 Ways to Improve Student Behavior
By: Annette Breaux and Todd Whitaker

Chapter 9 Their Own Notes to Parents

This chapter was about students who misbehave writing their own letters home to parents, than you. When this is done, parents are more likely to believe it and not get mad at the teacher thinking that their kid is imperfect and horrible. Parents will more than likely tell the kid to behave better and give them a punishment that the kid won't like so the kid won't do anything bad anymore because the parent will know and act on that. This will help me in dealing with kids through camp or something by having them tell the parent, than  you.50 Ways to Improve Student Behavior
By: Annette Breaux and Todd Whitaker

Chapter 8: Happy Notes to Parents

The chapter discuss that noticing good child behavior is good and telling parents this builds a better relationship and kids will behave better to have a note to give to their parents. This will then make it easier to deal with parents when there is a big problem with their children. It also makes the children happy. Even if you only send one every couple a months it should work out well and be enough.
50 Ways to Improve Student Behavior
By: Annette Breaux and Todd Whitaker

Chapter 7: Meting Out the Seating

The chapter talks about in the beginning of the year for a week or so you should let students sit where they want to feel comfortable. After that you should know who is best to sit where and who by. This can allow you to move just the few by assigning them special jobs that make them move to better spot all the way around. You could also do groups rotating often and keeping the ones that need to be separated, separated. Can help me by working in groups and how to keep some form sitting together distracting everyone and not helping the group.
50 Ways to Improve Student Behavior
By: Annette Breaux and Todd Whitaker

Chapter 6: Believe in Them!

Chapter tells you that teachers who help students by believing in them will make them believe in themselves and that students spend more time with teachers than with parents. This then means that students that who have positive role models that make them believe in themselves at home they still need their teacher to do so. If the teacher smile and stay patient with them and then encouragement students will believe that the teacher does truly care. This will help teachers with behavioral problems with kids by lowering it. This helps by reminding me to always stay positive even if I get the feeling the kid doesn't care whether I help him/her or doesn't grasp a concept so he/her starts to give up.
50 Ways to Improve Student Behavior
By: Annette Breaux and Todd Whitaker

Chapter 5: Stay Near, Dear

The chapter states that you must break the physical barrier, which can break a mental barrier that wasn't even known existed, by moving around in your classroom. Just like when you go into talk to someone and they stay behind their desk it can feel more uncomfortable. Teachers need to take that to the classroom and kids will also have less behavioral problems. This helps both in and out of the classroom. It helps to know mixing it up doesn't hurt kids thinking.
50 Ways to Improve Student Behavior
By: Annette Breaux and Todd Whitaker

Chapter 4: Are You All Right?

The chapter discuss about asking students acting out in bad ways in the class privately about are you all right. This will show the kid that you care and has noticed. This will help the kid to want to behave better and act better towards everyone. This relates to everything in life with other humans and helps with some kids in the class that I help with corrections and catching up on late work.
50 Ways to Improve Student Behavior
By: Annette Breaux and Todd Whitaker

Chapter 3: Tools for Rules and Procedures

This chapter talks about making rules and prodcedures for the classroom and that rules are for serious problem like hitting and procedures are for doing something. You should have at most six rules and a lot of procedures you teach over time. This is great for teachers or someone in that line of business or bosses. This is great for setting the classroom atmosphere right on the first day and being consistent.
50 Ways to Improve Student Behavior
By: Annette Breaux and Todd Whitaker

Chapter Two: A Letter of Introduction

This chapter discuss that contacting the students and parents before the school year begins is a big plus; they advise letters. In the students you should talk about how happy you are to have them in your class. In the parents you should discuss how happy you are to have their kid and work with them to make them better, it also advises to tell them about some of the important stuff to learn.This is to help grow a relationship so students want to be in your class and parents will want to work with you and the child. This helps with human behaviors and if I ever became a teacher or something in that line of work.
50 Ways to Improve Student Behavior
By: Annette Breaux and Todd Whitaker

Chapter One: Meet and Greet

The chapters main theme was if you want your students to want to be in your classroom, then you have to convince them that you actually want them there. It was about meeting students at the door and greeting them whether it's just hello or nice to see you again. This will help them feel welcome and behave better, then. It can help kids want to learn, also. The way the WalMart greeter greets is how you should greet them and saying good-bye at the end of the class period will only help more. I don't really know how this helps me now, but it's good peoples skills all together and nice to know. This could also help you in a job.
50 Ways to Improve Student Behavior
By: Annette Breaux and Todd Whitaker

Blog/Reflection Journal for Week of May 7-11, 2012

This week in cadet teaching I helped kids get test corrections done and graded papers. For Thursday they had safety day which I helped the group with. Friday they had field day so I helped grade and do books in the classroom. This week was enjoyable and remained me of how close the end of the year was with all of the end of the year activities they did.

Reflection Journal/Blog for Week of April 30-May 4, 2012

This week in cadet teaching I graded papers, helped kids get caught back up in class. The kids also went on a field trip Friday. They were working on fractions in math. Working with the kids was complicating because they really don't seem to care as much since it is the end of school. The week was fun,though.

Reflection Journal/Blog for Week of April 23-27

This past week I was gone Monday and Tuesday. I helped with kids retaking tests, getting caught back up in classes and grading papers for Ms. Wilbers. The kids have taken their map test already, so they went to the park and I helped in the office, then. In the office I mostly ran errands for the secretaries. The week was fun and I learned more about working with kids in a group and how having different personalities clashed.